The Murder of Juan Leon Laureles
The Fall Line: True Crime
The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC
4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The first episode in our intermittent National Series covers the unsolved murder of Leon Laureles, who was living and working in Brown County, TX, at the time of his 1996 murder. Though it has never been officially labeled as such, many view his unsolved homicide as a hate crime. If you have any information in his case, call Heart of Texas Crime Stoppers at 800-222-847.
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| 0:00.0 | What if your daughter disappeared? Your mother, your son? What if years have passed and you're no closer to finding them? |
| 0:09.0 | When a person goes missing, their story doesn't stop there. |
| 0:12.0 | Each week, missing brings you stories of missing persons and justice, |
| 0:16.0 | sourced from the case file of the nonprofit private investigations for the missing. |
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| 0:28.0 | Missing where mysteries have a mission. |
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| 0:41.0 | From tales of survival and deepfakes to synchronicities and cryptosuology, |
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| 0:52.0 | Search crawl space wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:55.0 | Crawl space where crime meets culture. |
| 1:01.0 | This episode discusses violence, homophobia, hate speech and hate crimes. |
| 1:07.0 | Listener discretion is advised. |
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| 1:19.0 | I've only met a couple of people that had that light in them. |
| 1:26.0 | My mom was one of them too, but my uncle was just so much blood. |
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